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Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butlers death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butlers scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous h Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butlers death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butlers scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as one of the summits of human achievement.

Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butlers death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butlers scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous h Written between 1873 and 1884 but not published until 1903, a year after Butlers death, his marvelously uninhibited satire savages Victorian bourgeois values as personified by multiple generations of the Pontifex family. A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of...  Read More